Twinsen's Odyssey on Windows XP Home?

#1 underscore

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Posted 23 January 2005 - 11:36 PM

Hello, everyone. Just found the forum and I like what you're doing - I hope someone can help me!

The trouble is this: I've got a Windows 95 game called Twinsen's Odyssey (also known as Little Big Adventure 2: Twinsen's Odyssey) on CD which, of course, ran fine on WIN95 ages ago.

The game installs fine under XP and executes, but the graphics are screwy - about 6 of the game's proper view with some 20 interlocking horizontal bars screwing them up. The sounds work, the cinematics work, and even the gameplay works fine (what little of it I can see, anyway), but the graphics are simply not as they should be.

I've tried compatibility mode and playing with my DirectX and hardware acceleration levels, but to no avail. I'd love to get the game working, and if anyone could help me I'd be very much obliged.

Thanks,

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#2 peterh

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 03:16 PM

Try enabling the 256 colour mode on the compatibility tab.

#3 e_swensen

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Posted 24 January 2005 - 09:28 PM

Check out my webpage at http://www.isu.edu/~sweneric. You might find something there that works. Also, check out the forums at http://www.magicball.net, it's a sight dedicated to the LBA games. Also, you can search for LBA2 support on the Activision.com website, there are some help tips there. Actually, I have a direct link to the support page for LBA2 on my website listed above.

Look into running the game in Dosbox.

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Posted 25 January 2005 - 06:50 AM

Thanks a lot, my friend - Funny Frog's patch worked perfectly. For any who visit this thread in the future (and you all should, it's a brilliant game!), omit the period and comma from the URLs to get the sites to load.

Thanks again!

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#5 e_swensen

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Posted 27 January 2005 - 04:29 PM

I am just relisting these website with so that you can click on them and they will open. My website is http://www.isu.edu/~sweneric/ They other website that is very useful is http://www.magicball.net/ It is a whole world of resources for the LBA games.

#6 e_swensen

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Posted 08 April 2005 - 03:29 PM

I am just letting everyone know that my toubleshooting page has changed to http://www.geocities.com/e_swensen Hope it still helps people out.

#7 e_swensen

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Posted 22 August 2005 - 02:03 AM

I've update my troubleshooting page for LBA2 Twinsen's Odyssey at http://www.geocities.com/e_swensen/ I hope that it will be able to help some people out that are trying to run the game. Thanks.

#8 e_swensen

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Posted 24 March 2006 - 08:47 AM

I've revamped my tech support page for LBA1 Relentless and LBA2 Twinsen's Odyssey at http://www.geocities.com/e_swensen/ Take a look and I hope that it helps someone out.

#9 e_swensen

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Posted 26 March 2007 - 01:28 AM

I just like to throw out that I still have my tech support page for LBA1: Relentless and LBA2: Twinsen's Odyssey at
http://www.geocities.com/e_swensen/ You can download Funny Frog's patch that fixes the graphics problems from my page.
I hope this helps some people out.

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